Next to gamers, engineers put the most stress on laptop performance. Excellent displays, high-end graphics, and plenty of RAM are the norm. We examine some of the very best laptops that can do the work a typical engineer requires on the road.

Microsoft’s previous hardware efforts have always made good sense if you were in a niche whose needs they were designed to meet. The new Surface Laptop takes everything good about previous Surface products and flushes it.

The PC market declined again in 2016, for the fifth straight year in a row. Sales in 2016 were less than 75% of what we saw in 2011, and depending on which analysts you listen to, 2017 won’t be much better.